"I for one motion for full deployment of virus bombs against the Terran pestilence before they have a chance to become a problem." Wait no, I'm Dictator for Eternal-life, I don't motion for anything. Fuck it we ball.
I love this game.
The original GalCiv II Dread Lords was my first PC Game, (ignoring MNOLG and some dimly recalled edutainment). The first time I went for a genocide playthrough, after getting bored of easily winning via "diplomacy" wherein you puppeteer everyone else to fight each other and then congratulate your allies about how you've brought peace to the galaxy by eradicating everyone else not in the alliance in the name of "freedom and democracy", the Terrans almost immediately called me out after testing my new Virus Armada against an unsuspecting minor-race that insulted my custom Barbarian Starhorde upon our first contact. The Terrans promptly lost their shit and formed an alliance of Allies and we engaged in an epic struggle that lasted until the end of that campaign. I love how every once in a while the game spits out a Space Opera with actual drama and pacing. The AI in GalCiv II is definitely above average, and doesn't even start cheating until you select one of the very high AI difficulty options.
It's not perfect mind you, there's a goofy "moral" system that often offers a bunch of uninteresting choices for either good-boy-points or chaotic-stupid-points. Meanwhile the only correct choice is Neutral to achieve Technological Supremacy via the Temple of Neutrality.
I'd say the game is unintentionally comical, but a lot of the events are tongue-in-cheek and occasionally eye-rollingly so, or just downright kinda dumb. More pressingly I feel that too many of the Evil options simply don't provide enough of a strategic benefit to be valuable. There's a clear intent for them to provide short-term gains but I've always looked at them as insignificant.
I think there's also a handful of bugs, as I once encountered a minor-race with a soldiering bonus of over 4 billion percent. Not sure how that happened. I've never encountered anything run destroying though. On max size maps there's also a chance of random crashes, as the game is only 32-bit.
The game is easily moddable, and has plenty of customization options for bringing new races and factions into the game. I like to roll with a pool of Master of Orion and Twilight Imperium custom races available to the CPUs.
You can lose weeks of your life to this game, stay away.
(Fuck the Drath. Scheming lizard bastards. If people are declaring war on you for no reason, it's always because you're playing against Drath. Every. single. time.) It's okay when I make the same kind of backroom deals tho
I love this game.
The original GalCiv II Dread Lords was my first PC Game, (ignoring MNOLG and some dimly recalled edutainment). The first time I went for a genocide playthrough, after getting bored of easily winning via "diplomacy" wherein you puppeteer everyone else to fight each other and then congratulate your allies about how you've brought peace to the galaxy by eradicating everyone else not in the alliance in the name of "freedom and democracy", the Terrans almost immediately called me out after testing my new Virus Armada against an unsuspecting minor-race that insulted my custom Barbarian Starhorde upon our first contact. The Terrans promptly lost their shit and formed an alliance of Allies and we engaged in an epic struggle that lasted until the end of that campaign. I love how every once in a while the game spits out a Space Opera with actual drama and pacing. The AI in GalCiv II is definitely above average, and doesn't even start cheating until you select one of the very high AI difficulty options.
It's not perfect mind you, there's a goofy "moral" system that often offers a bunch of uninteresting choices for either good-boy-points or chaotic-stupid-points. Meanwhile the only correct choice is Neutral to achieve Technological Supremacy via the Temple of Neutrality.
I'd say the game is unintentionally comical, but a lot of the events are tongue-in-cheek and occasionally eye-rollingly so, or just downright kinda dumb. More pressingly I feel that too many of the Evil options simply don't provide enough of a strategic benefit to be valuable. There's a clear intent for them to provide short-term gains but I've always looked at them as insignificant.
I think there's also a handful of bugs, as I once encountered a minor-race with a soldiering bonus of over 4 billion percent. Not sure how that happened. I've never encountered anything run destroying though. On max size maps there's also a chance of random crashes, as the game is only 32-bit.
The game is easily moddable, and has plenty of customization options for bringing new races and factions into the game. I like to roll with a pool of Master of Orion and Twilight Imperium custom races available to the CPUs.
You can lose weeks of your life to this game, stay away.
(Fuck the Drath. Scheming lizard bastards. If people are declaring war on you for no reason, it's always because you're playing against Drath. Every. single. time.) It's okay when I make the same kind of backroom deals tho